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The budget has been revised — and it's good news for some school employees and two smaller schools.

Dr. Douglas Schuch, Bedford County Public Schools superintendent, informed the county’s school board at a work session Wednesday afternoon that the General Assembly restored $3.5 million that the school system would have lost due to changes in the local composite index (LCI).

“That three-and-a-half million came back to us,” he told the school board.

There are two things you can count on in the United States: Decency always triumphs in our public policies in the end; conservatives fight it every step of the way.

So it’s been in the long battle over health care reform, finally signed into law after the courageous efforts of President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and one great American who wasn’t here to see the fruits of his life-long labor, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.

Two very different versions of what happened the night of Dec. 19, 2007, began to be unveiled Tuesday afternoon to the Bedford County jury hearing the first degree murder case against 39-year-old Wesley Earnest, who is accused of killing his estranged wife that night.